Man gets 37 months for gun and high-capacity magazines

Published 1:32 pm, Friday, February 15, 2013

A man living here illegally has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for having a gun and two high-capacity magazines.

Miguel Nuñez-Leyva, 33, of Coahuila, Mexico, was arrested in April 2012 after San Antonio police pulled him over for a traffic stop in the 200 block of South San Manuel, records show.

Officers found a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol and two high-capacity magazines that he had hidden in a secret compartment in the center console of the Ford Explorer he was driving.

Though suspected in other violent crimes in San Antonio, he has not been charged, records show. Instead, Homeland Security Investigations charged him as being an “illegal alien in possession of a firearm,” records show.